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Bradley S. Peterson is affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine, with notable contributions to subfields such as Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health; Cognitive Neuroscience; Clinical Psychology; Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging; and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The scientist's research centers on several key topics, including:

  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Neonatal and fetal brain pathology
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
  • Tryptophan and brain disorders

Their recent publications illustrate a focus on prenatal development and neurodevelopmental outcomes. Selected recent papers include:

  • Human milk oligosaccharide 2'-fucosyllactose links feedings at 1 month to cognitive development at 24 months in infants of normal and overweight mothers (2020), PLoS ONE
  • Prenatal exposure to air pollution is associated with altered brain structure, function, and metabolism in childhood (2022), Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
  • Associations between different dimensions of prenatal distress, neonatal hippocampal connectivity, and infant memory (2020), Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Prenatal exposure to ambient air pollution is associated with neurodevelopmental outcomes at 2 years of age (2023), Environmental Health
  • Associations of Maternal Prenatal Drug Abuse With Measures of Newborn Brain Structure, Tissue Organization, and Metabolite Concentrations (2020), JAMA Pediatrics

Bradley S. Peterson frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Ravi Bansal
  • Siddhant Sawardekar
  • Catherine Monk
  • Marisa N. Spann
  • Michael I. Goran

The scientist's work appears regularly in several publication venues, among which the most frequent are:

  • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
  • UNC Libraries
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • PLoS ONE
  • Neuropsychopharmacology

Best Publications

  • The circumplex model of affect: an integrative approach to affective neuroscience, cognitive development, and psychopathology

    Jonathan Posner;James A. Russell;Bradley S. Peterson

  • Mapping cortical change across the human life span

    Elizabeth R. Sowell;Bradley S. Peterson;Paul M. Thompson;Suzanne E. Welcome

  • Normal development of brain circuits.

    Gregory Z Tau;Bradley S Peterson

  • Loss of mTOR-Dependent Macroautophagy Causes Autistic-like Synaptic Pruning Deficits

    Guomei Tang;Kathryn Gudsnuk;Sheng-Han Kuo;Marisa L. Cotrina;Marisa L. Cotrina

  • Regional brain volume abnormalities and long-term cognitive outcome in preterm infants.

    Bradley S. Peterson;Betty Vohr;Lawrence H. Staib;Christopher J. Cannistraci

  • Symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder

    James F. Leckman;Dorothy E. Grice;James Boardman;Heping Zhang

  • Detection of functional connectivity using temporal correlations in MR images.

    Michelle Hampson;Bradley S. Peterson;Pawel Skudlarski;James C. Gatenby

  • Course of Tic Severity in Tourette Syndrome: The First Two Decades

    James F. Leckman;Heping Zhang;Amy Vitale;Fatima Lahnin

  • Cortical abnormalities in children and adolescents with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder

    Elizabeth R Sowell;Paul M Thompson;Suzanne E Welcome;Amy L Henkenius

  • Sex Differences in Cortical Thickness Mapped in 176 Healthy Individuals between 7 and 87 Years of Age

    Elizabeth R. Sowell;Bradley S. Peterson;Eric Kan;Roger P. Woods

  • An fMRI study of Stroop word-color interference: evidence for cingulate subregions subserving multiple distributed attentional systems

    Bradley S Peterson;Pawel Skudlarski;J.Chris Gatenby;Heping Zhang

  • Basal Ganglia volumes in patients with Gilles de la Tourette syndrome

    Bradley S. Peterson;Prakash Thomas;Michael J. Kane;Lawrence Scahill

  • Regional brain volumes and their later neurodevelopmental correlates in term and preterm infants.

    Bradley S Peterson;Adam W Anderson;Richard Ehrenkranz;Lawrence H Staib

  • A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study of Bipolar Disorder: State- and Trait-Related Dysfunction in Ventral Prefrontal Cortices

    Hilary P. Blumberg;Hoi-Chung Leung;Pawel Skudlarski;Cheryl M. Lacadie

  • An Event-related Functional MRI Study of the Stroop Color Word Interference Task

    Hoi-Chung Leung;Pawel Skudlarski;James C. Gatenby;Bradley S. Peterson

  • A functional magnetic resonance imaging study of tic suppression in Tourette syndrome.

    B. S. Peterson;P. Skudlarski;A. W. Anderson;Heping Zhang

  • Brain anomalies in children exposed prenatally to a common organophosphate pesticide.

    Virginia A. Rauh;Frederica P. Perera;Megan K. Horton;Robin M. Whyatt

  • HHS Public Access

    Martine Hoogman;Janita Bralten;Derrek P. Hibar;Maarten Mennes

  • Neural and behavioral substrates of mood and mood regulation.

    Richard J Davidson;David A Lewis;Lauren B Alloy;David G Amaral

  • Reduced basal ganglia volumes in Tourette's syndrome using three-dimensional reconstruction techniques from magnetic resonance images

    B. Peterson;M. A. Riddle;D. J. Cohen;L. D. Katz

Frequent Co-Authors

Ravi Bansal
Ravi Bansal University of Southern California
Xuejun Hao
Xuejun Hao Columbia University
James F. Leckman
James F. Leckman Yale University
Rachel Marsh
Rachel Marsh Columbia University
John C. Gore
John C. Gore Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Kerstin J. Plessen
Kerstin J. Plessen University of Lausanne
Feng Liu
Feng Liu University of Queensland
Myrna M. Weissman
Myrna M. Weissman Columbia University
Donald J. Cohen
Donald J. Cohen Yale University
Robert A. King
Robert A. King Yale University

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